Usually means: Having a lid or cover.
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  1. operculate: Merriam-Webster
  2. operculate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. operculate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. operculate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. operculate: Vocabulary.com
  6. operculate: Wordnik
  7. operculate: Wiktionary
  8. operculate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. operculate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Operculate, operculate: Dictionary.com
  11. Operculate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. operculate: Rhymezone
  13. Operculate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. operculate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. operculate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. operculate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. operculate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. operculate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. operculate: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Operculate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (operculate)

▸ adjective:  Having an operculum.
▸ noun:  Any gastropod mollusc that has an operculum

Similar:
operculated, opercled, oculiferous, binocellate, octopoidal, octopusal, octopusial, oculigerous, ocellate, octopal, more...

Opposite:
inoperculate, non-operculate, unoperculate

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Similar:
operculated, opercled, oculiferous, binocellate, octopoidal, octopusal, octopusial, oculigerous, ocellate, octopal, more...

Opposite:
inoperculate, non-operculate, unoperculate



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